Three men suspected of defrauding a businessman of shs 343 M by falsely pretending that they were in a position of supplying gold worth 142kg. have been charged afresh at Milimani .
The three Frank David Kateti, Alain Mwandia Nvita Lukusa and Daniel Otieno Ogot pleaded not guilty of all the four counts before Milimani magistrate Wendy Nyamu who released them on the previous bond terms that were given to them by the previous courts.
Lawyer Danstan Omari who appears for the three accused persons applied for the released of the passport of the second accused person was however rejected by the state , according to Omari there was no order in the previous court that directed that the passport be detained as the holder David Kateti is a not a Kenyan citizen and was likely not to return to Kenya if he left the country.
According to the prosecution ,the passport is to secure the attendance of the accused persons in court, he can however seek the leave of the court to have his passport released whenever he wants to travel.
According to the charge-sheet, one Frank David Kateti, Alain Mwadia Nvita Lukusa and Daniel Otieno Ogot that on diverse date between February 5th 2024 and 13th June 2024 at Nairobi city county, within the Republic of Kenya jointly with others not before court conspire to commit a felony namely stealing a sum of million 341,931,276.107 and 2,018,016 from Asianic limited by falsely pretending that you were in a position to sell 142 kg of gold to the said Asianic limited the fact you knew to be fault.
Four witnesses have been lined up to testify, the matter will be coming up mention on 7th of October 2024.